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2 unusual facts about Mark Kirchner


Mark Kirchner

Therefore the only race he could not claim a gold medal in was the 20 km individual where the out-of-the-blue win by Eugeni Redkine of Russia prevented him from becoming an absolute champion of these Games.

Kirchner came second in the overall World Cup standings twice which happened in the two consecutive seasons of 1990\1991 and 1991\1992 the former behind Sergey Tchepikov of the USSR and the latter behind Mikael Lofgren of Sweden.


Eugeni Redkine

He won a surprising gold medal over 20 kilometres ahead of Mark Kirchner and Mikael Löfgren at the 1992 Winter Olympics.


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